Wednesday, March 13, 2013

A new board game where kids rescue polar bears from real, melting ice | Grist
A German science magazine has invented a game wherein tiny polar bear game pieces sit on melting blocks of ice — real, melting ice that comes from the game’s own special ice tray – and players try to rescue the polar bears before the ice melts.
Deaths up by 30,000 in big freeze | UK | News | Daily Express
The brutal Arctic blast has seen temperatures plummet to -13C (9F) amid what could be the coldest March for almost three decades.

Pensioner groups warned the death rate among Britain’s elderly has already soared this winter with fears it could hit 30,000 - 6,000 more than last year.
Vicky Pope - Climate Change and the Media - YouTube
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Matt Ridley: We Should Be Listening To Susan Crockford | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)
Many scientists have grown frustrated with the domination of the polar bear story by dogmatic propagandists and have begun to speak out. Susan Crockford is one of them: a zoologist who is independent of the alarm industry and therefore free to make up her own mind. In this valuable paper, she has done a fine job of documenting the actual facts of the case as far as they are known.
German Renewable Energy Policy Takes Toll on Nature Conservation - SPIEGEL ONLINE
The German government is carrying out a rapid expansion of renewable energies like wind, solar and biogas, yet the process is taking a toll on nature conservation. The issue is causing a rift in the environmental movement, pitting "green energy" supporters against ecologists.

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